Topic: Susan Powell

The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge sided with the parents of missing mother Susan Powell, ruling that her father was within his bounds to cut out Josh Powell’s mother and sister from a trust set to receive $2 million in life-insurance proceeds in a few months. Third District Judge L.A. Dever issued the…

The Associated Press TACOMA — A federal judge says Josh Powell’s family can share in the insurance proceeds from the lives of the two young sons he killed in 2012. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton last week came in a dispute between the families of Powell and his long-missing wife, Susan Powell, over…

The Associated Press TACOMA — A judge has rejected Steven Powell’s request to have taxpayers pay for his court-ordered sex offender treatment after a voyeurism conviction. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Ronald Culpepper agreed Friday with the state Attorney General’s Office that Powell cited the wrong statute when he made his request. The News Tribune reported that Powell…

The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) today rescinded the release plan for Steven Powell after a Tacoma property owner withdrew an offer to allow him to move in as a tenant upon his release from prison. Powell had been scheduled to complete his sentence Nov. 4, according to…

The Associated Press OLYMPIA — The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell is nearing the end of his prison sentence. The state Department of Corrections said Thursday that Steve Powell will likely be released from the Monroe Correctional Complex on or about Nov. 4. The 63-year-old will be supervised by a community corrections officer, is required…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of missing Utah mom Susan Powell has launched his own search this week after police said the case is at a standstill after they’ve run out of tips. Susan’s father Chuck Cox announced on the website for the nonprofit Susan Cox Powell Foundation that he was starting a search…

The Associated Press OLYMPIA — The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell won’t be released from prison Thursday, the Washington state Corrections Department said. Steve Powell has been serving time on voyeurism charges for secretly recording images of young neighbor girls. He was sentenced in June 2012 to 21/2 years in prison. May 23 was the earliest…

Your Twitter and Facebook passwords are safe: Employers can’t ask for them in job interviews or of existing employees under a measure passed by lawmakers and just signed by the governor. Other social media sites are covered, too. Your boss also can’t ask you to friend him or her so your profile is visible….

A Utah police department’s search at an Oregon farm for Susan Cox Powell, a mother who’s been missing and suspected dead since 2009, has turned up nothing. The West Valley City Police Department hasn’t said why its detectives started searching the large farm in Scotts Mills, about 20 miles northeast of Salem. But Powell’s father, Chuck Cox,…

The father-in-law of a missing Utah woman is expected to be released from a Washington prison next month, less than a year after he was sentenced to 2 ½ years for recording images of two neighbor girls in their bathroom. Washington state Corrections Department spokesman Chad Lewis tells KING-TV that Steven Powell will be…

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